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Increase students’ access to school-based mental health services.

https://www.ncforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Top-Education-Issues-2024-25-Print-Ready.pdf

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Salary, Flexibility, and Extra Support. 

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Salary, Flexibility, and Extra Support. 

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Advocate for improved salaries, flexibility, and the support needed to be effective in the classroom and community.

https://learningattheprimarypond.com/blog/how-to-be-an-advocate-for-yourself-as-a-teacher/

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How to Be an Advocate for Yourself as a Teacher - Learning at the Primary Pond

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Teaching is the most rewarding profession, but it’s also one of the most difficult ones. In this blog post, I’ll go through some ways to advocate for what you need.

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Informative-Decision Making as a whole group.

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Informative-Decision Making as a whole group.

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Asking the teachers for their advice in decision making instead of assuming.

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Educators Informed Decision Making | Agile Education Marketing

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Elementary teachers have 200 to 300 informed decision or judgement based exchanges with students every hour (between 1200-1500 a day).

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Because of formidable access barriers to conventional sources of care, an estimated 80% of the millions of children and adolescents needing services for psychiatric or behavioral problems receive these services only at school (Burns et al., 1995).

Most kids only receive access to mental health counseling at school. While this is good, we still need more. Classroom disruptions along with no motivation to learn are usually students struggling with mental health. As a teacher, we need to close this gap and help these children as much as we can because you never know what is going on at home.

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Work-Life Balance for Teachers. Mind Matters. 

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Work-Life Balance for Teachers. Mind Matters. 

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Teachers can struggle with this. Sometimes it is important to be our own advocate in this scenario.

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‘I Was Determined to Make a Change’: A Teacher’s Checklist for Work-Life Balance (Opinion)

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As a working mom, I struggled to maintain a sense of sanity and stability, writes one high school teacher. Here’s what works for her.

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Inclusion and services for Special Education. 

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Inclusion and services for Special Education. 

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Often times, Special Ed is overlooked. These teachers and kiddos need just as much support as everyone else.

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The Importance of Advocacy and Inclusion in Special Education

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Special education teachers play a critical role in the nation’s education system, using their expertise to work with students with disabilities.

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Survey results showed that a majority of teachers (99%) believed that addressing students' mental health needs was part of their role but felt somewhat burdened by these needs, especially in classes with students who exhibited greater difficulties.

This article hit close to home, being 5th-grade teachers who were surveyed.

Teachers say that mental health can be a burden on student learning. Noticing which ones of our students need these services also helps us help them.

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Parents believe we should advocate for: 

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Parents believe we should advocate for: 

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-More funding for our schools and extracurricular activities.

-Extra support for our teachers and those struggling students with things outside of school.

-Mental health counseling for both students and teachers.

-More funding for extra supplies and support for a more hands-on environment.

-Salary increases as a teacher.

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Teachers believe we should be advocating for: 

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Teachers believe we should be advocating for: 

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5th Grade Team:

-Student attention span and involvement.

-Correct training and assistance for the special education department and learning accommodations are the minimum.

-Student motivation and growth.

-Work-life balance. School hours vs. family hours.

Our assistant:

-Extra support for the new assistants in the buildings.

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Administrators believe we should be advocating for:

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Administrators believe we should be advocating for:

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Counselor:

-Student mental health

(Geared towards trauma)

STEM Teacher:

-More funding for STEM classes.

Vice principal:

-Not leaving students behind. Overall, student success and growth.

Instructional Coach:

-Ron Clark Houses

(The family and community atmosphere for all students, all of the time, no matter what.)

Librarian:

-Equitable access to all of the books and technology needed for a child to succeed.